The Theory of How Couples Find Each Other - An Application of Psychoanalytic Concepts

Monday, October 10, 2005
7:00 p.m.

Speaker: Bernard J. Baca, PH.D., LCSW
Dr. Baca has a private practice and provides agency based consultation in clinical social work, marriage and family therapy, clinical supervision for private practitioners and multi cultural Latino training. He is an Imago Relationship Therapist and Certified Imago couples workshop presenter working with couples.

Following is an abstract of his chapter in the recent book - by Dr. Harville Hendrix, et.al. Imago Relationship Therapy: perspectives on theory.

Envy’s Manifestation in Individuals and Couples:
Implications for Imago Therapy

This article integrates the concept of envy into Imago Relationship Therapy’s formulation of the power struggle. Defense mechanisms, character styles, the literature on envy, and object relations theory are drawn upon to describe how envy manifests in individuals and couples. Six hypothetical case examples serve as illustrations of the dynamics of envy in couples.